anyway trying to install linuxmce - first got hung up by a 'buffer i/o error device fd0 logical block 0 error.solved that with someone elses solution of f6 at first load screen and disabling legasy drive I found elsewhere in wiki.

now dvd has installed (i assume os has opied to hdd) and been spat out and system reboots.it takes me strait to busybox screen (initramfs) ?

any ideas??? be gentle by the way have exactly 20 mins of linux experience

you could try that f6 thingy again, only this time you have to hit [Esc] during boot when grub tells you to, then you should be able to edit a similar line. If that helps, edit /boot/grub/menu.list to make it permanent.

Very quickly discovered shortcoming of this board, onboard NIC doesn't work with device driver that Kubuntu loads on install. 3 days and lots of cursing later, I solved this problem, heres how I did it;

1st I updated BIOS rom to version 1605 (you can find instructions to do this on ASUS website) (not sure if this helped solve problem but I did it and in the interest of someone following in my footsteps I would recommend it)2nd installed Kubuntu 7.10 on hard drive in safe graphics mode3rd downloaded linux drivers from ASUS website and copied them to desktop using a usb thumbdrive I had (you need the driver that matches your kernal distro for me it was r8168-8.010.00.tar)4th and this is where it gets interesting;

opened a Konsole session (Alt+Spacebar then type 'konsole' then enter)

Check your Kernal build - type;

'uname -r'

use this info to put correct driver on your desktop (check the readme file from ASUS)

To check what driver is currently being used by your kernal;

'lsmod'

This will show you all drivers in your Kernal to run system. You are looking for r8168 or r8169, r8168 is the one you want... r8169 is the wrong one for realtek 8111c NIC. Ok to get rid of r8169 type;

'sudo modprobe -r r8169'

Then confirm it worked by using 'lsmod' command. Now you need to put in the new driver, find the file you saved to desktop and type;

'tar xvf ~/dev/r8168-8.aaa.bb.tar.bz2'

This unpacks file (tar ball) to /dev directory, aaa and bb will match filename (for some reason it changes all the time, I have no idea why). Next

'cd /dev'

and have a look 'ls' to check it unpacked. now to install it in kernal; type the following one line after another